Word: kidnaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranian militants have resorted to systematic brainwashing. What has probably happened, at least with some of the hostages, is a degree of identification with their captors-a temporary reaction often referred to as the "Stockholm syndrome."* Says Stanford University's Donald T. Lunde, a psychiatrist who has treated Kidnap Victim Patty Hearst: "I'd expect the hostages to have some quite positive feelings for their captors for the single reason that these people have been playing a parental role with them and kept them in a dependent state." As a result, says Lunde, "they'll be making...
Investigators tended to give credence to the claim that the blast was the work of neoFascists, or so-called black terrorists, because of the mindless nature of the crime. Leftist terrorism tends to strike with selective assassinations, like the kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism...
...twice-married father of five children ranging in age from 18 years to five months, I can tell you what goads desperate fathers to kidnap their children: the unjust, unfair prejudice of courts in this country, as well as in the U.S., in awarding custody to Almighty Mom in more than 90% of all cases...
...mind-boggling array of expensive protective instruments is now on the market, ranging from $375 bulletproof vests for executives conducting shareholders meetings to $16,000 electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head...
...invisibility, the S.A.S. destroyed hundreds of Nazi planes on their own airstrips, freed countless Allied prisoners and blew up scores of Axis ammunition dumps. The commandos were also sent on missions to assassinate leading Axis generals. One of the unit's few known failures involved an attempt to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the top German commander in Africa. The Germans soon came to fear the S.A.S. men sporting berets decorated with a winged dagger and the motto WHO DARES WINS...